, 1887-12-01
AID MIS- SION.
ciiciits.

! Various influential journals through
out the country are enlisting them
selves on the side of right and justice
and insisting upon the admlsson OF
several territories to statehood during
! the approaching session OF congress
and especially Is this weight being
! brought TO bear IN favor of Washing
ton territory. In recent editorial on
admission the Portland News con-
tanned the following logical argument
| in favor of the IMMEDIATE admission OF
Washington setting forth at length
good and abundent reasons why
congress should act in the premises at
once:
GOT the other territories. not SO much
| need be said here as of Washington. OF
! that territory much Is TO be said. She has
! the population To- entitle her to place in
| tne union. and she has Incompatible loca-
| tion, advantages and resources the consid.
| Grafton of which should prevail in con-
I grcss, to warrant that body in passing the
! bill Tor her admission. II 1t shal be passed
| President Cleveland will hardly dare tn put
| his veto upon 1t. The act will be interpre-
| ted by the people of the United States as
partisan action, to guard against the proba.
| bility of his own reelection to the presi-
| deucy, to better assure his own continuance
| in that most exalted station. 1t will there
fore appear as the trick OF the ambitious
and INSCRIPTIONS politician, desperately
playing his game to his own selfish pur-
pose in the lace of the action of the feder.
al congress in spite of the sentiment and
purpose of the people of the union. as pro-
n oliu ced by their senators and representa-
tives assembled in the federal capital.
Washington territory possesses an ocean
line upun the Pacific more extended than
that OF half Of the New England states upon
the Atlantic. She embraces the magnificent
inbound waters Of Puget sound, the grand
est of the deep waters in the world, in
which the shipping OF all the nations OF the
globe can safely ride at anchor Upon the
sound is the finest growth of lumber ng for
ests known i'm any land. The trafic in 1t
extends to domestic and foreign ports to
every seaport OF the globe. Her coal mines
are an inexhaustible source OF wealth and
industry And the chief sound ports are
developing into tlourishing, populous, af-
fluent cities, commercial ihartS, ana pros
perous communities.
"Inland, the territory Is also great. from
the mouth of the Columbia, majestic river
of the continent, to the confluence OF the
Snake river, and beyond 10 embrace tne
more northern country to the line of Brit
ish Columbia, through which the mighty
river courses, there extends an emf ire in
bounds and fertility and resources Wheat
lands unexcelled in any country, mines of
the precious metals, wea of minerals
vet only in the infancy of discovery, and
grazing lands of unbounded limit, with
forests and farms, tributary streams and
beautiful lakes, commend Washington
territory to the attention of the world, and
emigration is every year attracted thither,
more and more She IL rapidly increasing
I'm n,nulation, settlements are springing in.
to towns and towns into cities, The time
will come, and before many years, when
c;rcnmstances will demand par
tition of. this vast domain; when
another state shall be formed
rom this great territory. But as she IL,
Washington territory ought now to be ad.
mitted as a state. The other will come In
due time. and the people will be willing to